Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pimply-faced.
  • Having a childish face; baby-faced.

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Examples

  • Buda with my single rapier, and shall a chitty-faced, beggarly Scots lordling, speak of me and a window in the same breath? —

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • 'It is queer how she thinks of him,' reflected Martin: 'the blinding snow and bitter cold are nothing to her, I believe: yet she is but a' chitty-faced creature, 'as my mother would say.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • And shall I now be browbeaten by a chitty-faced girl?

    Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are William Godwin 1796

  • "I have confronted twenty crooked sabres at Buda with my single rapier, and shall a chitty-faced, beggarly Scots lordling, speak of me and a window in the same breath?

    The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

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